Taking Sides in a New Middle East
For my weekly date with The Hugh Hewitt Show, Ed Morrissey was guest-hosting for Hugh and opened with breaking news of a 72-hour "humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza. I see Hamas has already broken it with a suicide bomber killing Israeli soldiers, and some kidnappers seizing another IDF officer. So much for the "ceasefire". Beyond the usual maneuvers and machinations, however, Ed and I did discuss what seem to me to be the interesting and possibly consequential features of this particular ... |
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SteynPostsHi-ho, Silver - Away!
Several readers have queried whether I'm under lawyers' instructions to clam up re Michael E Mann, the serial litigant, inventor of the global-warming "hockey stick", self-proclaimed Nobel Laureate, and liar, cheat, falsifier and fraud. Yes, as you can see from the tail end of the preceding sentence, I've decided to be much more restrained in my commentary on the upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century. It's also the case that the matter has stalled in the choked toilet tank of DC justice, ... SteynPostsThe Home Front
American life is bifurcating into the undocumented and the over-documented SteynPostsMy Fellow Canadian
Ever since the weekend, I've been looking at the photo on the right. It's a close-up of a picture that forms part of Richard K's photographic scrapbook of the annual "al-Quds Day" rally in my home town of Toronto. "Al-Quds" is the Arab name for Jerusalem, and this event, if not quite as big as the LGBTQWERTY parade, enjoys a similar official imprimatur: the Government of Ontario gives permission for it to be held at Queen's Park, home of the provincial parliament. At this year's shindig, Gaza was the big grievance, and there was a lot of undisguised Jew-hatred in the air. But, as I said, it's the photograph at right that's been weighing on me... The Hugh Hewitt ShowThe Absence of America
Dinesh D'Souza has a new movie out called America: Imagine A World Without Her - but we don't really have to "imagine", it's happening before our eyes... SteynPostsHoliday Memories You'll Cherish Forever
It's express check-in for 15-year-old gangbangers at the southern border, but four-hour searches at gunpoint for 15-year-old boy scouts at the northern border Mark's MailboxMore Than A Warmin'
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Defend Free Speech!Complaining about Insufficient Complaints
In my SteynPost on Michael Mann's Clime Syndicate and the latest beneficiary of their offers you can't refuse, I mentioned my previous legal battles with Canada's "human rights" regime over Section 13. Brian Storseth's private member's bill took an eternity to crawl through Parliament all the way through to Royal Assent, but it got there in the end and Section 13 formally bit the dust just last month. By then, I wasn't in the mood for celebrating, but I'm glad to see someone's been popping the ... Steyn's Song of the Week(I'm In Love With) A Wonderful Guy
A few weeks back, apropos "June Is Bustin' Out All Over", I mentioned that we hadn't done a lot of "month" songs in the years we've been running this feature. Some months - mostly spring ("April Showers", "April In Paris") and fall ("September Song", "September In The Rain") - seem to lend themselves to musicalization. If "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" is about as big a hit title as the sixth month of the year has ever produced, the eighth (which looms this very week) can't even manage a title ... On the TownBeautiful Dolls and Only Girls
This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, the conflict that gave us the modern world - Communist Russia, the post-Ottoman Middle East, Europe's loss of civilizational confidence. The catalyst for war was the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, which Mark noted here a month ago. In the weeks ahead, we'll be looking at some of World War One's cultural legacy, for good or ill. As a curtain-raiser, here's an encore presentation of a SteynOnline audio special, celebrating the British Tommies' favourite ballad of the war years, "If You Were The Only Girl In The World", and its composer Nat D Ayer. Ayer was a two-hit wonder, with an ocean between them: "If You Were The Only Girl" was his British hit; his American hit from five years earlier was known to generations of Looney Tunes viewers for most of the next century - "Oh, You Beautiful Doll". This special podcast was first broadcast to mark the 100th birthday of "Beautiful Doll" in 2011... Mann vs SteynFootball and HockeyThe Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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